Russian combat performance is outright terrible, on the level of early WW2.
But what is outright terrible is the performance of the Western politicians. I very much hope that this war will throw a spanner unto the usual gerontocracy ****show in the West.
This war caught not only Putin, but the West with its pants down too.
The potential for political black swans in the West is at 1000%. Weak Biden is the one to thank for EU's rearmament out of animalistic sheer fright, and fear. EU's defence spendings in the future may not only double, but go much further than that as once forgotten European nationalistic fervours are back from history books.
For the last 20 years, the US only been successful at spanking its own "allies" on the world stage. The consequences, and payback of that would be unrolling in the years to come.
Ukraine is Suez 2.0, but for the USA.